Is It Too Late to Apologize for Mooning You?

Black girl #1: Damn, girl! You're hairy! I dunno if it's cause I'm light-skinned, you're hairy!
Black girl #2: Thanks. Thanks… (walks away)
Black girl #1: You're like a werewolf!

–H&M Dressing Room, Queens Center Mall

Overheard by: hoping shes not a werewolf too…

Posted on July 18, 2020
Black People, Colors, Compare/Contrast, Ghetto Chicks, Girls, Hair, Physical appearance, Queens, Store, Vampires, Ghouls, and Ghosts, oh my!

Can I Interest You in Some Sausage?

Drunk girl to random sober guy: Bacon! My hands are like bacon!
Sober guy: What are you, drunk?
Drunk girl: Just very, very, very hungry.
Sober guy: Proceed.

–NYU

Posted on July 8, 2020
Body Parts, Compare/Contrast, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Food, Girls, Guys, NYU

How to Make a Student Yearn to Discuss Polynomials

Female tutor: Okay, so do you want a soy hot chocolate?
12-year-old student: No, that tastes funny.
Female tutor: So you want cow milk, eh? How would you feel if you were hooked up to a machine all day giving milk?
(student is silent)
Female tutor: You know it's breast milk right?
Student: Yeah.
Female tutor: Moooooo moooooo. (makes suckling noise.) Moooo moooo! (Makes suckling noise)

–Hopscotch

Overheard by: bildita

Posted on June 22, 2020
Animals & Nature, Bars & Clubs, Compare/Contrast, Default, Food, Offers and requests, Questions, Sensory Experiences, Students, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, Women

Wednesday One-Liners Hang Weird Shit on Their Mirrors

Cab driver, getting cut off: Yeah, drive like you want that cheeseburger!

–Columbus Circle

Cabbie: I got in some trouble and my wife threw all my clothes out of the house. I never realized how many clothes I have! I know New York streets better than my own closet! (laughs)

–Cab, Broadway & Houston

Cab driver to colleague who just honked after he stopped for a pedestrian: What, you want me to kill him?

–Battery Park

Middle Eastern cab driver: I used to have a video store in Washington Heights. But the black bastard put me out of business! Can you believe it? After ten years the black bastard put me out of business! Do you now the black bastard on Dyckman? C'mon! Everybody knows the back bastard! Black bastard! Black bastard video!

–Cab, Washington Heights

Overheard by: Gene Gray

Cab driver: When you drive for ten hours a day, you learn that over 50% of drivers are, how do you say it…stupid.

–Queens

Overheard by: Fiasco

Posted on June 15, 2020
All Wednesday One-Liners, Battery Park, Cabbies, Cars and Driving, Clothing, Compare/Contrast, Coworkers, Jobs & Careers, Junk Food & Fast Food, Laughter, Marriage, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Murder, NYC Geography, One-liners, Queens, Soho, Street, Stupidity, Time, Washington Heights and Inwood, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Wishes & desires

…Screaming Down the Stairwell

Guy: What about a trampoline?
Girl: Nah, it was more fun in a shopping cart.

–5th & Broadway

Posted on June 5, 2020
Compare/Contrast, Girls, Guys, Questions, Shopping, The Village

Thank God the Wednesday One-Liners’ Strike Is Over

Chick on cell: We can’t let Blair and Tootie control our lives!

–LIRR

Overheard by: Poogins

Homeless crazy black guy to three scared white girls in their twenties: Time is crazy. Oh man, what time is "Desperate Housewives" on?!

–10th Street & 3rd Ave

Large latino: Yo, it was so good last night, I mean I can’t believe you missed it. It was the best episode I’ve seen yet, seriously bro… Well the main thing that happened was Heidi tried to apologize to LC and she was all like: "I wanna forget you!" I was like: "Whaaaaaat? For real?" It was crazy, you gotta catch it!

–Times Square Office Building

Overheard by: SUSAN

Redhead: The "Brady Bunch" world is a world without urges.

–Veniero’s, 11th St between 1st & 2nd

Overheard by: Ursula & Winifred

Muscular guy: He comes up to me talking all this shit, saying that he’ll bring it. Bring what? He’s not gangsta like I am, he ain’t thug like me. Skinny motherfucka looks like a damn burnt-out Screech.

–On the Bus

Fulsome girl with bad dye job: I’m like: "I watch ‘Law and Order: SVU’, I’m not getting in your van."

–15th between 6th and 7th

Overheard by: Disunionsquare

Aries Spears, in line for an Ashlee Simpson autograph: I’m the black guy from MADtv! [Grabs a random girl’s camera and snaps a picture of them together and walks away.]

–Virgin Mobile Mega Store, Times Square